The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown